| BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by: David Lean Produced by: Columbia Pictures Corporation [us] / Horizon Films Genre: Drama / War / based-on-novel / based-on-true-story / bridge / japanese / prisoner-of-war / wwii / classic Main Cast: William Holden Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins Sessue Hayakawa Geoffrey Horne James Donald Andre Morell Ann Sears | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 OSCARS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It won Seven Oscars include | Best Picture Director Actor (Guinness) Cinematography (Jack Hildyard) Editing (Peter Taylor) Scoring (Malcolm Arnold (who used the famous WWI whistling tune "Colonel Bogey March") Screenplay (by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, based on Pierre Boulle's novel)
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